The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-03-03
I'M MGR ALTON.
One of North Cardinals Chief
Needs.
Let US Look to the Sturdy English and
Scotch for the Bone and Sinew to
Help US Build up the Old North
State.
Wilson Southern Uome.l

Both England and Scotland are
old and densely Inhabited countries.
The lands are in the main held in
large estates by few wealthy landed
proprietors. The tenant system pre-
walls almost universally. Rents are
high and the tenant has struggle to
maintain his growing family, and no
hope for acquiring the much coveted
farm of his own As long as rents
are from Gr2 to b25 per acre an
nuallv the industry of the tenant IS
taxed to its utmost to force from the
soil this income, added to the needs
of family be their manner of living
ever so frugal. The exercise OF BRAIN
and muscle to bring about such re-
suits from one acre of land develops
skilled farmers, and these skilled
farmers: are at this time diseontented
! ones. lust now casting about for some
place to better their lot, and where
there is some hope OF becoming
proprietor rather than tenant, and
a reasonable chance to leave to their
sturdy sons farms of their own.
These skilled tenant farmers know
all about stock feeding and sheep hus-
bandry and butter making, all about
intense farming and feeding the soil,
all about raising grasses and vegetables
and root crops, all about manures and
their application to the soil, all about
drainage and deep cultivation. In
short they are skilled farmers, such as
we of North Carolina know nothing
about, and such as once introduced
in our midst would reveal to us such
possibilities in our soil under our
; genial sunshine, and especially in the
Eastern section of our State, as we have
. never dreamed.
When they are able to extract from
, the not over productive soil OF their
: own country a harvest sufficient to pay
! an annual rental of from $50 to S1oo
Der acre and support their families,
what might they not accomplish on
q the lands of our own State, SO similar
q in soil, humidity and temperature to
4 their own, where land would not cost
a for title in fee simple one-tenth the
= sum they now pay as annual rental (
81 North Carolina seems to be the
q natural home for these sturdy English
q and Scotch yeomenry, the East OF the
,e dwellers along the Thames, the
&c Mercer, the Trent, the Severn and the
10 Firth. while the Middle and Western
ls sections possess the characteristics o.
~ the table lands of England and the
~ highlands of Scotland.
I'd When this country was first settlee
lg these very people came and settled II
ne North Carolina, and most OF us trace
tn our blood back to the sturdy stock o
e? the land of Raleigh and Scott. After
ds wards the institution OF slavery KEEP
DIS them from our shores, and since tn
ev war so little has been known OF tn
ey advantages we have to offer that tn
nd tide of immigration has not bee
as turned from the great highway
,g travel westward, SO largely advertise
ow and made familiar to every tenar
nd farmer of the British Isles. Maps
Are the great West, with her cham OF raj
of road systems with glowing description
her of the fertile soil and her lmnen
m wheat and corn fields and the 10
but prices of land. All this paraphanal
yel. of the successful immigration ar
nds colonization agency directs them Nor
cry and West and they are kept in pr
found ignorance nearer home, {
life shores whased by the same waves tn
ach beat against the rocky coast OF ths
.av- fatherland, and the same waters tn
for foated them to the New World won
to alone seperate them from their G
aim homes. No thousands Of miles of ra
,ye. road travel, and no intervening street
and Of prairie would separate them ire
in the association of old scenes left
in hind.
toll Is it worth any effort to get th'
the Deople to settle in North Caroiir
does Would they be desirable class
rnal emigrants3 Could we give up
in pet system of farming-ralslng cot'
her to mortgage for corn and meat
her raise it with-and accept the Engl
and system of stock raising-beef eating
fort, sheep raising, mutton eating,
we raising-oat meal eating, wheat r;
D of ing-whi.e bread eating, raising be
enly for stock feeding, raising grass
|, in green forage for soiling mich co
z it the introduction of Jersey and A,
tar2 shier and Short Horn and Chan
cattle, the making of golden yel
, has butter and rich cheese, the substi
e eye ing OF skilled farming ,ol oos.oh -
early ing, the raising Oh piouuoe .".s =
the realize $50 TO sioo pei aci, a. =
e.. chilled farmers have learned to